We gaze at the destruction and linger the way a woman might stare awhile at a too-expensive dress in a big store window, the way that moonlight looks at an island in the middle of the sea — island unnamed, and unashamed, touched by the tide.
People might stare and point.
"People might stare, but I need to rehearse".
You might stare at an able-bodied person if they're dressed in an unusual way.
I could be pushed off a platform, stabbed or, even worse, someone might stare at me.
Her eyes, weary and glittering, stare at me as one might stare at a sudden animal across a stream.
Unlike other insider restaurants in cities like Berlin or Hamburg, where regulars might stare down outsiders, these places felt welcoming.
I stared at the phone for a few seconds, as a shipwrecked mariner might stare at a disappearing boat.
The smoker lay on one side – this is where the slang "hipster" came from – and might stare at the lamp or decorated pipe to help bring on hallucinations.
As the lights come up, the four women, looking youthful in dresses and kneepads, stare at a Slinky-like air duct center stage the way children might stare at a corpse.
